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Intel’s Roadmap Targets Through-silicon Via Issues in Foveros Technology

Knowing the issues with Foveros technology, Intel includes improvements, from interference to power consumption, into its roadmap. How is Intel aiming to improve this technology?

2 days ago by Jake Hertz

Flexible Processors? Arm and PragmatIC Push Flexible Electronics Up A Level

Flexible electronics have been a dream for many researchers; however, could the creation of a flexible processor be the key to pushing this technology to the next level?

4 days ago by Jake Hertz

Digital (ON/OFF) Hall Effect Devices: Switches and Latches

Learn about the polarity of the B-field, unipolar switches, omnipolar switches, Hall effect latches, and bipolar switches in this technical article.

July 22, 2021 by Steve Arar

From Hall Sensors to Encoders: 3 Companies Target Industrial Position Monitoring

Position sensors have been trending, especially with the increasing need for them in industrial settings. What new products have companies come up with and how have they advanced monitoring technology?

July 15, 2021 by Rushi Patel

Higher Memory, Compute, and Security: Xilinx’s Versal HBM Platform Speeds Past DDR5

Fast on the heels of the AI Edge series, Xilinx releases the Versal HBM Advanced Compute Acceleration Platform (ACAP), claiming 800% more memory bandwidth at 63% lower power over DDR5.

July 14, 2021 by Adrian Gibbons

New PMICs Leverage Maximum Power Point Tracking for Energy Harvesting

Recently, energy harvesting technology has become more and more prevalent. What are the basics of it and what new PMICs are making waves?

July 13, 2021 by Jake Hertz

Optimizing Power Management with NXP’s i.MX RT500 Crossover MCU

This article provides an introduction to microcontroller power management concepts. The NXP i.MX RT500 family of crossover MCUs will be used to provide examples of how these power management concepts can be employed by embedded developers in their applications.

July 08, 2021 by Alejandra Guzman, NXP Semiconductors

An Introduction to Digital Signal Processing

This article provides a general understanding of what DSP is, how it works, and what advantages it can offer. To appreciate the advantages of DSP, let’s first have a look at the conventional method of signal processing, i.e., analog signal processing.

June 30, 2021 by Steve Arar

Maxim’s Digital IO IC’s Shrink LiDAR Technology for SICK AG’s Safety Scanner

Maxim Integrated and SICK AG have teamed up for, what they are calling, the industry’s smallest LiDAR scanner for safety.

June 29, 2021 by Jake Hertz

A Week of GaN: 3 MMICs Target Ka-band, Reduced Area, and 5G Base Stations

Qorvo, Microchip, MaxLinear, and Cree Wolfspeed have gone wide, electrically wide-band that is, with newly released GaN-based RF products for 5G and satellite communications.

June 28, 2021 by Adrian Gibbons

A RISC-V Future? SiFive and Andes Aim to Shake Up the Processor Industry

RISC-V, the open-source instruction set architecture, is making inroads against industry giants, with the support of the RISC-V Foundation.

June 25, 2021 by Adrian Gibbons

Understanding DSP Enablement Using NXP’s i.MX RT500 Crossover MCU

Learn about multi-threaded programs, developing applications using the XOS real-time operating system, resource sharing with semaphores, and how NXP's i.MX RT500 family of microcontrollers help engineers design DSP-enabled smart devices.

June 24, 2021 by Jason Tseng, NXP Semiconductors

Lattice Leverages FD-SOI for New Low Power FPGAs

AAC sat down with Lattice Semiconductor to hear about its newest FPGA offering, which claims lower power compared to competitors. However, how does it back up this claim?

June 23, 2021 by Jake Hertz

Graphene and Magnetics On the Brain: Researching Bioelectronic Brain Implants

As the gap between electronics and biology grows smaller, more devices are being researched. Recently, a focus has been on bioelectronics, namely implants for your brain.

June 19, 2021 by Nicholas St. John

3 New Image Signal Processors Target Power, Speed, and Autonomous Driving

The push towards autonomous driving is showing a flux of companies releasing image signal processors. What exactly is being improved?

June 16, 2021 by Ikimi .O

Xilinx’s Versal AI Edge Blends the Border Between Programming and EEs

Wrapping up a two-part series on the new Versal AI Edge series ACAP from Xilinx, AAC talks about the intersection of engineering disciplines and ACAP applications.

June 15, 2021 by Adrian Gibbons

Supporting the AI Boom: Facing the Challenges of Hardware and Deployment

AI has been a hot topic recently, especially this week. With all the efforts coming out, there is a growing need for better hardware, collaborating, and easing deployment.

June 11, 2021 by Rushi Patel

Maxim Integrated Simplifies System Monitoring With Five ICs in One

As power differences grow between industrial equipment and digital electronics, interfacing can be a challenge. Maxim Integrated has a possible solution to help.

June 10, 2021 by Jake Hertz

Xilinx Opens a New Door to Edge AI with Newest Adaptable Compute Platform

Recently, AAC had the chance to talk to Xilinx about its newest family member in the Versal series of adaptive compute acceleration platforms, the Versal AI Edge series.

June 09, 2021 by Adrian Gibbons

Easing the Effort: Mipsology Accelerates ML with Zebra FPGA IP

Today, Mipsology is announcing its solution for FPGA programming: Zebra FPGA IP. This IP aims to ease FPGA programming, giving the designer more time to design.

June 09, 2021 by Sam Holland